This third edition takes into account major changes in the law, attitudes towards responsibility and liability for crime, the updating of research findings concerning mental disorders and criminality and our procedures for managing offender-patients through the criminal justice …
Part I Legal and adminstrative frameworks -- 1 Problem areas revisited -- Responsibility (liability) for crime -- 3 Systems of disposal -- Part II Clinical considerations -- 4 Mental disturbance -- 5 Psychopathic disorder : a useful label -- 6 Violence and homicide -- 7 Fire-rai…